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The Great Pacific Trash Vortex

Category: Podcastia
Posted on: July 15, 2008 9:00 AM, by Benjamin Cohen

Not just floating around the northern Pacific Ocean, it's now on podcast too.

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image from Greenpeace via Treehugger



To the likes of the New York Times Magazine "Sea of trash" and Harper's "Moby Duck", please welcome Jody Roberts' voice to the bibliography of garbage swirling around the sea. It's all here in this Distillation's podcast, "Cleaning Up", from the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

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Ahem... Deep Sea News and The Oyster's Garter also discussed this issue how innaccurate that map depicts ocean currents (in february).

Posted by: kevin z | July 15, 2008 9:40 AM

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